The instruments are arranged into what critics described as a "nice smooth ballad with vocals". "Just The Way You Are" is a pop and R&B song with an instrumentation that features piano, keyboard sounds and breakbeat. Stephen Marcussen mastered the song at Marcussen Mastering in California. Ari was also responsible for engineering the song at Levcon Studios in California. Ari Levine and Bruno Mars played all the instruments on the track and recorded them. "Just the Way You Are" was Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in Hollywood by Manny Marroquin, while Christian Plata and Erik Madrid served as the assistant mixing. The song was supposed to be for Lupe Fiasco but at this point Bruno decided to keep it. Bruno and Phil came up with the chorus, and then Needlz sent us the files and we replaced a bunch of sounds with our sounds and I programmed drums in the MPC, and we wrote the rest of the song. It had everything we could want in a first single for Bruno."Īri Levine explains: “Needlz had a track with a melody idea by Khalil Walton that was presented to us by one of the A&R guys. it didn’t sound like anything else on the radio. "It had a massive chorus, an instantly memorable melody and lyric, and was a natural transition from the B.o.B and Travie McCoy songs. I'm just telling a woman she looks beautiful the way she IS - and, let's be honest, what woman doesn't wanna hear those lyrics?!" Mars' A&R who was responsible for finding songs and songwriters to help in the process of composing the song, Aaron Bay-Schuck, told HitQuarters that as soon as "Just the Way You Are" was finished they knew they had the first single, saying: And to me 'Just The Way You Are' is one of those songs.
You know, there's no mind-boggling lyrics or twists in the story - they just come directly from the heart. Get ready to fall in love!" He added, "I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point. I wasn't thinking of anything deep or poetic. Bruno said of the song, "It took me months to come up with 'Just the Way You Are'. The song was written by The Smeezingtons, Khalil Walton, and Needlz. "Just the Way You Are" has sold 12.5 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. On February 13, 2011, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The official remix features rapper Lupe Fiasco and is included on the deluxe edition of Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The track was added to Radio 1 A Playlist in the United Kingdom, and was released in the United Kingdom on Septemas "Just the Way You Are (Amazing)". The music video, directed by Ethan Lader, was released on Septemand features Peruvian born Australian actress Nathalie Kelley.
The song was written by The Smeezingtons, Khalil Walton, Jon Ray, and Needlz and produced by The Smeezingtons, and Needlz. It has also received airplay from AOL Radio's New Pop First station. It was released in the United States on July 20, 2010. "Just the Way You Are" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, and is the lead single from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans.